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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 808646, member: 68&quot;]So what do you do with the 50,000,000,000 quarters?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There would either be some convoluted rounding scheme that sometimes cheats the seller and sometimes the buyer or billions of dollars worth of quarters are scrapped.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Why not just make a little aluminum nickel that would even cost two cents to produce.&nbsp; You could even make one the current size for a half cent more.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This would solve all the problems with the elimination of the cent and the dollar bill.&nbsp; The economy wouyld run a little smoother and I wouldn&#039;t get stuck in line behind the little old lady counting out pennies.&nbsp; People would like this so much once they got used to it that we&#039;d do like Canada and Europe and start using a $2 coin as well.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The increased usage of $5 bills would partially offset the loss of the single.&nbsp; Vending machines would become more popular again.&nbsp; And the American people wouldn&#039;t waste millions of man hours on senseless inane tasks like dealing with pennies or not being able to make simple purchases.&nbsp; You wouldn&#039;t even have to whip out your wallet just to buy a newspaper or a cup of coffee.&nbsp; Disease transmission would decrease and we wouldn&#039;t be a target for muggers and pickpockets.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The current system is simple insanity and there&#039;s absolutely no need for it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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